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Opinion

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Giving confidence to return to work

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The founders of Women Returners and STEM Returners on why their new partnership is vital to helping people back into STEM after a career break.

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Vexed concept of a ‘foetal microbiome’ refuted

By Jens Walter

A team of international experts has refuted scientific claims that human foetuses harbour live microbes during healthy pregnancies.

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Manufacturing certainty on the origin of Covid-19 is damaging to science

By Alina Chan

Alina Chan reveals why it’s dangerous to insist that the lab leak theory is dead in the water.

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Engineering viruses to make the world a more dangerous place

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Virologists should think thrice before embarking on gain of function experiments

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The power and value of scientific societies

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The fluctuating professional environment often results in ‘support turbulence’ – the unpredictability of help, encouragement, and assistance provided by mentors, colleagues, community, and institutions.

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Infections in the White House: A bug’s eye view of the American presidents

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Infectious diseases have dictated the length, timbre or trajectory of the terms of many past Presidents of the United States of America.

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A year without antibiotics

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What would it be like for a year in a world without antibiotics? Grim? Certainly. Apocalyptic? Probably not. 

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Should bacteriophages be included in the environmental surveillance of risks associated with antimicrobial resistance?

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The contribution of phage to environmental antibiotic resistance should not be underestimated.